Stock-waterer.



Patented Jan. 29, IBM. E. UNGKLESS.

STUCK WATERER.

(Application filed May 18, 1900.

PATENT EDWARD UNCKLESS, OF FRIEND, NEBRASKA.

STOCK-WATERER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,891, dated January 29, 1901.

Application filed May 18, 1900. Serial No. 17,154. (No model.)

2'0 atl/ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD UNcKLEss, a citizen of the United States,residing at Friend, in the county of Saline and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Stock-Waterer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to stock-waterers, and has for its object to provide a device of this character with improved means for controlling the supply of water to a drinkingtrough, so as to maintain a proper amount of water therein and at the same time to prevent the water from overflowing. It is furthermore designed to provide adjustable means for controlling the supply of water, so that the supply may be shut 0E when the water has reached different levels within the drinking trough or tank.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a drinking-trough, parts being broken away to show the improved means for controlling the supply of water to the trough. Fig. 2 is a vertical central longitudinal sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the controlling-float.

Corresponding parts in the figures of the drawings are designated by like characters of reference.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a trough of any preferred form to suit the needs of any particular case and having a supplypipe 2 discharging into the interior thereof and preferably adjacent to the upper side of the trough or tank. Immediately below the discharge end of the pipe there is provided a transverse cleat or shoulder 3, which is fiX- edly secured to the inner face of the adjacent side of the trough or receptacle. Pivotally connected to the outer edge of the cleat or shoulder, by means of suitable hinges 4, is a block of wood 5, which is designed to form a float that rises and falls with the rise and fall of the level of the water within the drinking trough or receptacle. To make the block more buoyant, an air-tank 6 is secured to the under side thereof by means of one or more straps or bands 7, which embrace the tank and have their opposite ends connected to the under side and the outer free edge, respectively, of the block. By this arrangement as the float rises with the rise of the level of the water within the tank the inner edge of the float will close against the inner open end of the supply-pipe, and thereby cut off the supply of water to the tank, and thus prevent overflow of the water.

In some instances it may be desirable to shut off the supply of water at different levels of the water within the drinking-tank, and to meet this contingency a leather strap 8 is placed against the inner edge of the block so as to close against the inner end of the pipe and form a valve, said strap being secured at its opposite ends only by means of suitable fastenings 9 driven into the block. The intermediate portion of the leather is flexible and loose, so that a wedge 10 may be driven between the leather strap and the adjacent inner edge of the float, so that the outer face of the leather valve may be arranged at an incline to the edge of the float, whereby this inclined face will close against the end of the pipe to close the same before the float has reached a horizontal position. By employing wedges of differentinclinations the face of the valve may be given different inclinations, so as to close the pipe at diflerent levels of the water. Also this inclination of the valveface insures a tight closure of the pipe, as the Valve will be firmly wedged against the pipe by the upward movement of the outer free end of the float.

What is claimed is- 1. A drinking-tank, having a supply-pipe, a controlling-float, having a valve for closing the pipe, and means for adjustably inclining the active face of the valve with respect to the plane of the float.

2. A drinking-tank, having a supply-pipe, a controlling-float, a flexible strap secured at its opposite ends to the float and to form a valve for closing the pipe, and awedge fitted between the intermediate portion of the strap and the adjacent side of the float, to incline the outer face of the strap.

3. A drinking-tank, having a supply-pipe, a controlling-float pivotaily 0r hingedly connected to the tank and having its hinged end located adjacent to the inner discharge end of the pipe, a flexible strap secured at its opposite ends to the hinged edge of the float, and a wedge fitted between the intermediate portion of the strap and the adjacent edge of the float.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as inyown I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD UNCKLESS.

VVitnesses WM. V. BLACKMORE, THos. W. BLAOKMORE. 

